1. |
Wadsworth
02:07
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Did you sleep last night
Is your head alright
Y’all were up late though right
And now you’re moving slow this mornin
Yeah what’s up don’t mind me as I pull up, post up
Trynna act like this ain’t just another fill up
Sittin on your ottoman,
Saying how you oughta man
Posturing, fostering this false sense of thriving in
This dim room sitch that we tried blooming in
Talking bout our futures as if they had past
Cause the livin still is easy, chillin out in last
But we gotta come up
Take on a hobby
Or fall on some dumb luck
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2. |
In Your Mirror
03:08
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I was drinking out of water bottle bongs
Goes down sort of like the sea
I was scared of nearly everything
God damn, what was I gonna be?
Cause while you’re waiting out on campus
I’ll be hiding out in my room
I can bear to watch but not talk to you
Yeah it’s all out there for you kid
You just gotta choose
The leaves are blowing down your street
A fluid bush among the trees
I’m a stray cat in your driveway now, straight down, you could come and see
Cause while I’m hiding in your mirror
I’ll be pretending I’m not near
I could let you be, but won’t steer clear
Yeah it ain’t doing me no good
To keep leaning on these blues
Yeah it’s all out there for you kid
You just gotta choose
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3. |
Oh, Henry
03:19
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Oh how are you my bosom brother
How have these years been
I wonder if you’re also up
Feeling down again
We were walking home from school back then
More dumb than smart
Smoking my first cigarettes
In your courtyard
And though
I knew you more then
Boy I know
You’re more than you had been
Well I’ve struggled with this But what can you do
I could never tell
I ain’t waiting to stay hoping on you
To come around
And though
I knew you more then
Boy I know
We’re more than we had been
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4. |
Arm's Length
03:02
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Is it in the distance
I feel when there’s rocks in my shoes
And can I get a witness
To all the good that nothing will do
You hold your pain at arms length
You feel such weight you wonder why
Cause ain’t it in my interest
To loosen this grip on my pride
And can I call it different, though you know
Same words, old dirt, another try
I hold my pain at arms length
I feel such weight I wonder why
Cause if it’s really bout some difference made
Can I say I’ve changed my mind
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5. |
Truth to Power
03:54
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Yeah Do you have it in you to
Speak truth to power
And can you really change the world at large
Cause you can see a cop shoot a kid
For nothing they did
Just walk the wrong way home
Oh and down at the border
Some folks want in just to help it along
And What is trust
How much is enough
To let some folks just live, just let em live
Cause when we get down to it
It’s the same bat and ball
60 odd years ain’t changed nothing at all
And we talk about peace like it’s something we know
But to tell you the truth we stay dropping bombs
I mean we can’t just patch this up
The presidents change but that ain’t ever enough
Like all we got are hesitations
Bout giving without expectations
But just say terror it ain’t a question
80 mil on a jet to send the message
That we just love our wars
At home, abroad yeah what’s one more
it’s all fucked though right
made up ur own damn mind
Hey the neighbors can think what they please
You got your own damn life
You spend your owed free time
And Doing nothing well it’s such a release
But the times have done their changing
As should we
the future should leave no doubt
What’s come so far we’re losing now, way, way down
But my hopes a summer heat
Under the gun or gods thumb we’ll sweat it out
And though it’s all a fire
Be like vines climb higher
So Do you have it in you to
Speak truth to power
And can you really change the world at large
So hard to call it like it is
Simple as a kid
Just knowing right from wrong
But that’s just how this works
The pursuit and what it’s worth
To pull water from a stone
What is trust
How much is enough
To let some folks just live
Just let ‘em live
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